2008 Ke-Go Sakusen WW2 Re-enactment in Shizuoka, Japan

Belly up to the full-service bar that is my awesomeness and suck on some photogs of a few weekends back in Shizuoka. Feeling lazy so commentary will be minimal. I mean it this time. No holding forth whatsoever. OK, maybe a little.

Persons wanting to do WWII British airsoft re-enactment are not exactly overwhelmed with readily-available choices of weapons. This cat custom built his Lee-Enfield from a stock Marui VSR. Extended the foregrip and made the sights, magazine, and bayonet lug from scratch. GANGSTA.

These guys were new. They changed uniforms between every game, it was like a Cher concert with more gunfire and fewer explosions.

OK, so the half-sized 10,5cm auf Lorraine Schlepper was not goofy enough, here we have chibi Hetzer! Made of plywood, built on the robust frame of a kid's trike!

It's not a self-propelled gun, it's a Jamor-propelled gun. Har har.

War is hell.

This guy likes Indiana Jones. Like, with the inspiring borderline-compulsive mania that only the Japanese are capable.

Shizuoka grüner Teufel - roten Teufel Freundschaftgesellschaft

Much like the Christmas truce, everyone knew it couldn't last. Primosole bridge, anyone?

Ah, finally the natural order of things is restored.

And, naturlich, it wouldn't be a Kego Sakusen event without some mock executions. Hey guys on the left? If you are going to be party to war crimes, it is probably not a good idea to snap some souvenir polaroids of the action, hmm? The memories will likely haunt you enough.

Least likely allies in history. Enemy of my enemy, I guess.

BLUE STEEL.

[attn: nerds. Plz to be forgiving the M-14, I wanted to use my new bandolier and it made a passable G-43 substitute. I find complaints about realism are muted when you wave the bayonet around.]